Field-drag



I UNITE STATES PATENT o ce.

DANIEL. HILL, or nnw VIENNA, OHIO.

FIELD-DRAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,656, dated December4, 1883. Application filed August 10, 1883. no model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL HILL, of New Vienna, in the county of Clintonand State of Ohio, have invented anew and useful Improvement inField-Drags, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,-

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvement, part being broken away. Fig.2 is a sectional side elevation of the same, taken through the line atm, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional front elevation of the same, takenthrough the line 3 y, Fig. 2.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the pulverizing andleveling. of soil in preparing the said soil to receive seed.

A represents the side boards of the machine, which may be of any desiredlength, breadth, and thickness. A are beveled upon the lower side, andtheir rear ends are beveled upon the upper side, as shown in Fig. 2. Inthe inner sides of the side boards, A, near their ends and at theircenters, are formed inclined grooves B, into which are fitted the endsof cross-boards O. The crossboards 0 are secured in place bybolts, whichpass through the side boards, A, and into nuts embedded near the ends ofthe cross-boards O, or by other suitable means. To the lower part of theforward sides of the cross-boards G are secured, by screws, bolts, orother suitable means, steel plates D, which project a little below thelower edge of the said cross-boards to act upon the soil. In the sideboards, A, between the cross-boards G, are formed holes E,

to receive journals F, formed upon the ends of cross-bars G, to whichare attached the shanks of the steel knives H. The shanks of the knivesH can be inserted in grooves in the ad jacent faces of the crossbars Gand of bars G, bolted to the said cross-bars or securedby othersuitablemeans, and can be kept from slipping downward by heads formedupon'the ends of the said shanks. The knives H of the rear cross-bar, G,are arranged to travel midway between the cuts made by the knives of theforward cross-bar, so as to cut into small pieces The forward ends ofthe boards sired depth in the ground and can be raised above the groundby operating the said long lever I. The knives H can be held in placeagainst the resistance of the soil by a chain at-- tached to the longlever I and hooked upon a hook or pin attached to the cross-board O inthe rear of the saidlever; or the long lever I can pass up between twoparallel bars, K, attached to the upper edges of the first and sec ondcross-boards O, and can be supported by a pin, L, passed throughperforations in the said bars K. Several holes are formed in the bars K,to receive the pin L, so that the knives H can be supported in anydesired position.

The last-described arrangement is shown in the drawings. To the forwardcros's-boardO, or to the forward ends of the side boards, A, areattached eyebolts M, hooks, or other couplings to receive the draft.

- Nis the drivers seat, which is attached to the upper ends of thestandards 0. The lower ends of the standards 0 are attached to two bars,I, which are nailed or otherwise secured to the upper edges of the rearand center crossboardO.

- With this construction, as the machine is drawn forward, the forwardscraper will partially level the soil and will push or press the clodsand sods into the soil, so that the forward set of knives will cut theminto pieces.

knives will cut the said clods and sods into smaller pieces, and thesoil will be leveled and smoothed by the last scraper and left in goodcondition for the operation of a planter or seed- The center scraperwill further level the soil and pack the clods and sods, and the secondset of patent that may be granted upon this appliea- I ranged betweenboards Gand carrying between IO tion or in other applications forLetters Patent them the knives H, the pivoted rod J 'con that I maymake. necting the levers I I, and the longitudinal Having thus describedmy invention, Iclairn bars K K, having opposite holes that receive 5 asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent the pin L, as shown anddescribed.

The combination of the side boards, A A, DANIEL HILL. having theinclined grooves 13, the cross-boards WVitnesses: O, fitting in saidgrooves and carrying plates T. L. ROGERS,

D the )ivoted cross boards or bars G G ar- ZADOK MILLER.

